From: Victoria Reich <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 06:33:05 -0800

The LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries and The CLOCKSS
Archive Support “Long-tail” Publishers

Communities using the LOCKSS Software have collaboratively passed an
important milestone and are now preserving over 1000 “long tail”
journal publishers, smaller publishers who have ten or fewer journals.
Content from these publishers are most at-risk for loss, making
preservation vital to guarantee future access to the material for
research and teaching.

"Stanford University Libraries provides access to approximately 83,560
serials titles, most of these from long tail publishers," said Michael
Keller, university librarian at Stanford. "The important work of
Stanford professors, students and researchers depends on preserving
the long tail at a scale of thousands of titles."

As libraries migrate from print to online-only publications,
assurances from publishers that a library’s investments are protected
and preserved for generations to come is essential.

"The LOCKSS Program provides designated communities with tools and
support to preserve those long tail publishers of importance to them,”
said Victoria Reich, LOCKSS Program executive director. “It is
critical that each community, with unique language and subject
specializations, takes responsibility for preserving content important
for their work."

According to Reich there are tens of thousands of long tail publishers
worldwide, which makes preserving the first 1,000 publishers an
important first step to a larger endeavor to protect vulnerable
digital content.

The CLOCKSS Archive is a critical and unique player in the quest to
preserve Web-based scholarly publications. CLOCKSS assigns abandoned
and orphaned (triggered) content a Creative Commons license to ensure
it remains available forever. "Approximately 70% of the publishers
preserved in the CLOCKSS Archive are long tail,” said Craig Van Dyck,
CLOCKSS executive director. “The demand for preservation among these
smaller publishers is increasing rapidly. The CLOCKSS Archive is
pleased to work with publishers and librarians to achieve the
necessary scale."

About Stanford University Libraries, www.stanford.edu
The Stanford University Libraries is more than a cluster of libraries;
it connects people with information by providing diverse resources and
services to the academic community. The Libraries includes more than
20 individual libraries across campus, each with a world-class
collection of books, journals, films, maps, databases, and more. The
Stanford Digital Library is one of the most advanced digital libraries
in the world with extensive digitization programs for books,
manuscripts, maps, 3d objects, images, audio, video and historical
software and data files. Library experts in search, digital curation,
digital humanities, computational social science, and digital
preservation work hand-in-glove with students, faculty and research
centers to build next generation applications and research corpora.

About the LOCKSS Program, www.lockss.org
The LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Libraries, built on the
principle that “lots of copies keep stuff safe", provides open source
tools and support to communities who use LOCKSS to ensure preservation
and continual access to both purchased and locally produced scholarly
content.

About the CLOCKSS Archive, www.clockss.org
CLOCKSS, Controlled LOCKSS, is a not-for-profit joint venture between
the leading academic publishers and research libraries whose mission
is to build a geographically distributed dark archive to ensure the
long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications.


Contact: LOCKSS Program, Stanford University, [log in to unmask]